Cindy’s 5th grade class was assigned to present an object lesson. She brought her goldfish to school and made her ...

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A US fisherman claims he was scooped up by a whale - then spat back out. Michael Packard thought at first he was being attacked by a shark. The director of humpback whale studies in Massachusetts said ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

From gun silencers to the child tax credit, there are several secluded provisions lurking in the Senate's version of sweeping ...

The novel follows a boy trying to recover his father's remains in the ocean after losing him to suicide when he is swallowed by a whale, with only a limited amount of oxygen remaining in his tank.

Josh Brolin displayed eye-popping faux tattoos while on the set of the forthcoming thriller Whalefall on Monday.

The Miami Heat, more interesting in the offseason than when playing lately, lost big on Kevin Durant but hit big in draft ...